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I think I might be in the minority based on other comments here.

I hate things like Siri and whatever Android phones have.

It's incredibly rude every time I hear someone almost yelling into their phone in public. They get frustrated Siri doesn't work and loudly and slowly say whatever it is again like being mean to a dumb child.

People speak out entire text messages and the replies. I'm not pointing out folks with disabilities. I'm talking about perfectly healthy adults who seem to have no sense of awareness around them.

On my phone, I found it infuriating that Apple just inserted this Siri icon into the keyboard next to the spacebar. It took me a while to figure out how to disable it. I already have large hands, but my typing accuracy is pretty good and fast. When that icon was there, it reduced the width of the spacebar and return keys and made it impossible to type without Siri popping up every few lines.

I think more broadly I have a prejudice against devices listening to me. I've never liked Alexa, Siri, or any other voice based automation system like customer support phone trees. Very rarely I've encounter a phone system that works well, but mostly these devices and systems are just infuriating to work with.




> I'm not pointing out folks with disabilities. I'm talking about perfectly healthy adults who seem to have no sense of awareness around them.

Careful. It's easy to overlook disabilities that may not be immediately externally visible.

I have a friend who's heavily dyslexic. You'd never know it if you ran into her on the street; she's quite successful in her career. Yet she uses voice dictation when sending text messages because it's an order of magnitude less time and cognitive effort for her to write something out that way.

I tend to think the world would be a better place if we were all just a little bit less judgemental of things we see others doing that we can't immediately explain.


> I'm talking about perfectly healthy adults who seem to have no sense of awareness around them.

There's also a few DSM5[1] diagnostic categories that could cover that behaviour.

However, it is a somewhat cultural behaviour - you see it more in some countries or places within a country - some people are just jerks.

Perhaps they could just add "arsehole" as a new diagnostic category to cover highly inconsiderate people. Just needs better wording.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dsm5


That's a very fair criticism. I hope no one reading my parent comment thinks I'm disregarding people like your friend. I'm not.

I'm referencing people who also think it's fine to loudly play music or have entire conversations with the phone speaker on in public.




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